Arthur wrote on 08/21/08 at 22:20:26:Pride of accomplishment seems to no longer matter. Question is, does it, anymore? Being able to build a car or do what Mick can do will never get you anywhere. Learning how to rot in a chair while you push keys on a computer, will. I hope I live to see the day that we experience a major power failure for just 1 month. That will separate the men from the boys.
I/We (my sister a B/in Law) live on a farm here in Oregon,we have two generators,our water comes from a well,one generator will kick in for the well and the other for the house and my garage appartment,we have quite a few power outages and servived,between my Sister and I we have enough food to last about 6 weeks,plus whatever is growing in our very large garden.
Hey we got through WW11 as kids living on 2 oz of meat 1 egg a week two slices of bread a day,plenty of tea but no sugar, at school every kid was given one oz of consentrated OJ a half pint of milk,and a tablespoon of cod liver oil,those three items gave you every vitimen you needed, today I don't know if that is still good?
there was also a study about drinking sea water done by the royal navy,it seems if you are torpedoed at sea and you end up in a life boat
in the middle of the Alantic without fresh water you should start sipping sea water before you get thirsty,two sailors survived for 60 days without any fresh water in a test,funny you never hear any thing about that any more,but I know it for a fact,the problem most people have is that initial sip ,eeew
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